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A Tribute to the great Ladies of Blues

The three Ladies are a total knock out! They sing the same way they look: powerful, swinging and sexy! Power and range, vocal and emotional virtuosity, intense-, simply grand! Three different, but outstanding voices, Eye- and earcatching, they are a real trip!

The show of the THREE LADIES will pay tribute to the great Ladies of Jazz, Blues and Gospel as Bessie Smith, Billy Holiday, Diana Washington and many more of the stars of black American music, so that the memory lives on.

The audience will be captured and set back into the Harlem of the early years. Yes theses ladies can sing! With swing in their music, joy in their souls; they are the personification of the human happiness, a vitalizing gleam of excitement, fresh, outgoing, energetic performance!

This is a three woman - show, Fans of black music will get the whole palette of Blues, Gospel and Jazz.

Joan Faulkner originally from Gary, Indiana (USA), called  “The Voice” has captivated and conquered audiences throughout Europe and the US since decades. She had began her singing career at the tender age of 3 in her father’ s church in Chicago, by the time she was 14, she was directing the choir, by the time she was 17, she had recorded her first song and has become the assistant director of the Indiana state choir. Because of these gospel roots Joan’ s talents were cultivated, and she is able to interpret any song with feeling. Her powerful array of R&B, Jazz, Gospel, Spirituals, Pop, Classical vocals over the musical spectrum, leaving no grounds undiscovered. Whether she is performing before thousands o, or a dozen, she has the ability to reach each and every person. Her audience is often captivated not only with her voice, but also with her personality. Came to Europe as a military wife in 1978. Since that time no one could stop her fast growing career, which started with Pop music, where she has several chart hits. It includes performances with Percy Sledge, Les McCann, the Weather girls, Linda Hopkins, Ray Charles and many other European Jazz greats and Big Band performances such as Peter Herbolzheimer, NDR Big Band, Thilo Wolf Big Band and many others. She has won several awards and has acted in a popular German TV series.

Cynthia Utterbach was born in New Jersey, moved to Los Angeles in the late seventies, and has been living in Europe since 1994. She arrived in Europe to perform in the musical production "The Buddy Holly Story" in Hamburg and has since performed throughout Europe as a jazz vocalist at festivals and clubs. Cynthia cites as her main inspiration Sarah Vaughan, and certainly she has a comparable warm sonority in the low register. Another influence was the highly distinctive Morgana King, who sang with a remarkable range, great tenderness, elegance and grace, excellent diction, and a strong sense of the dramatic.  Mmother was a church choir organist and pianist and had an extraordinary voice. She was teaching her daughter in the beginning, who also became a music major in school. She learned theory and sight-reading, and planned originally to become a classical singer, but when she started scatting to Madame Butterfly, the professor thought that maybe she should pursue another career. Cynthia grew up listening to the Supremes and other girl groups, so when I started as a singer, it was mostly Top Forty music. Then in the early eighties, she decided to change over to Jazz.

Joanne Bell was born in Riverside, California. Joanne made her first solo stage appearance at age four in the musical production "Singing In The Rain" with the oldest continuously active community theatre group in the United States. When Joanne began her university studies, she entered the world of opera. Although Joanne has trained diligently as an opera singer performing such roles as; Carmen in Carmen, Tosca in Tosca as well as considerable works by G. Mahler, she has worked just as hard at mastering the art of improvisation. This has rendered her a uniquely versatile song stylist intent on promoting the American Classics; Spirituals, Gospel, Musical Theater, Blues and her favourite, Jazz. Currently residing in Europe, Joanne performs, teaches, writes and produces shows, musical theatre pieces and songs , the most recent: "OH HAPPY DAY" - The history of Gospel music and "BESSIE AND BILLIE" - A Jazz theatre piece, together with Cynthia Utterbach.